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I am about to buy my first pine, I believe its albino. Any words of advice?
It will be going str8 into a 55 gallon aquarium. Thanks ahead of time.....
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tangerine honduran "baby"
motley corn "ebert"
black milk "medusa"
snow corn "dudley"

well i can tell you one thing, a hatchling is going to get reallyyyyyyyy stressed out in a 55 gallon tank. only when the snake is an adult should the tank be that big. a good mesurement is by the length and the width of the tank to the snake. for instance, lets say you had a 30 inch snake, the snake could do fine in a tank that was 20 inches long and 10 inches wide, thus equaling 30, which is how long the snake is. all im trying to say is you are going to have an unhappy snake if you have a hatchling in a 55 gallon aquarium
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i have one Brooks Kingsnake, hopefully breeding in the next couple of years! yaaahhhh, only if i can find a male though lol, but im still looking for a male lol

Ok thanks for the advice I have MANY smaller tanks and totes that have been converted to "houses" .

Someone told me it was better to put it in its permanent home right from the get go.
I have a honduran that is on a hunger strike, I posted it on the milk forum, I wonder if it is in too big of a tank. She is 2.5 feet and in a 29 long tank.
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tangerine honduran "baby"
motley corn "ebert"
black milk "medusa"
snow corn "dudley"

Yeah, I agree with the poster. Snakes like to feel secure, so having hatchlings in a bigger tank/cage can stress them out, making them feel " out in the open".

I had that happen to my first southern pine a few years ago. I put her in a big cage, cause she was a big baby and I thought she would like that, but it worked against me. She did not eat hardly, so I immediately put her in a smaller cage. Ate right away and is fine since.

Billy
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